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9/11Tree and serpent worship, or, Illustrations of mythology and art in India in the first and fourth centuries after Christ : from the sculptures of the Buddhist topes at Sanchi and Amravati
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Tree and serpent worship, or, Illustrations of mythology and art in India in the first and fourth centuries after Christ : from the sculptures of the Buddhist topes at Sanchi and Amravati
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- Fergusson, James, 1808-1886; Waterhouse, James S., 1842-1922, photographer; Griggs, William, 1832-1911, lithographer, photographer; Great Britain. India Office; W.H. Allen & Co., publisher; Eyre & Spottiswoode, printer
- Publication date
- 1868
- Topics
- Tree worship in art, Serpent worship in art, Art and mythology, Buddhist sculpture, Stupas, Architecture
- Publisher
- London : India Museum : Wm. H. Allen and Co., 13, Waterloo Place, S.W., publishers to the India Office
- Collection
- gettyphotographyincunabula; getty; americana
- Contributor
- Getty Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 6.6G
Signatures: a⁶ A-2H⁴
Added lithographed title page
Includes index
Fifty-seven plates are albumen prints, 20 x 27 cm., mounted on cardboard. Of these photographs, 37 were taken by William H. Griggs (1832-1911) in 1854 and 20 were taken by James S. Waterhouse (1842-1922) in 1866. Waterhouse was an Indian army officer and head of the photographic department of the Survey of India from 1866-1897. Other plates include 40 lithographs by Griggs, from drawings by F.C. Maisey; a map of Amravati; and a plan of the Amravati tope (stupa)
Binding: green publisher's cloth with gilt serpent motif on front board; quarter gilt morocco; bookplate of Stafford H. Northcote on front pastedown
Added lithographed title page
Includes index
Fifty-seven plates are albumen prints, 20 x 27 cm., mounted on cardboard. Of these photographs, 37 were taken by William H. Griggs (1832-1911) in 1854 and 20 were taken by James S. Waterhouse (1842-1922) in 1866. Waterhouse was an Indian army officer and head of the photographic department of the Survey of India from 1866-1897. Other plates include 40 lithographs by Griggs, from drawings by F.C. Maisey; a map of Amravati; and a plan of the Amravati tope (stupa)
Binding: green publisher's cloth with gilt serpent motif on front board; quarter gilt morocco; bookplate of Stafford H. Northcote on front pastedown
- Addeddate
- 2014-12-03 19:14:27
- Call number
- 9926937840001551
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- Phase One, P40+
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